Our Cake Batter Christmas Cookies Take 15 Minutes to Make

If you follow Delish closely, you've probably caught on that we're absolutely not baking obsessives. We're food-obsessed, 100 percent, but baking is just, so, exact. In the test kitchen, with Beyonce blasting overhead, we like to create recipes as we go, adding a little bit of this and a little bit of that until we feel we've found a sweet spot.

Ethan Calabrese

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Baking doesn't allow for the Delish spontaneity. You've gotta be calculated when you bake, which doesn't bode so well with the free spirits running (around) the Delish kitchen. But we have discovered some holiday cookie shortcuts that we can't get enough of this year, like in these tie-dyed kris krinkle cookies and these peppermint pattie-stuffed ones.

Ethan Calabrese

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These might have the best workaround of all: Boxed cake mix. Replacing flour and sugar with cake batter yields super-soft, cake-like cookies that share the intense vanilla flavor with, well, vanilla boxed cake mix. Beyond the cake mix, the only other ingredients you need are baking powder, oil, eggs, and sprinkles—I used both red and green ones. (The green ones are to thank for the cookies' Grinch-y look; if you'd rather have regular-colored sugar cookies studded with sprinkles, chill the batter for 10 minutes or so to prevent the sprinkles from instantly melting.)